The concept of “Star-equilibrium” in connection with man-woman relationship appears in
(A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) The Old Wives’ Tales

  On the Star-Equilibrium Relationship in D.H. Lawrence’s Novels
 By reading Lawrence's three novels, namely, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover, this thesis aims to illustrate Lawrence's metaphysics of star-equilibrium. His protagonists get free from imbalanced love and eventually achieve the star-equilibrium relationship.For Lawrence, the industrial world is a world of decadence and destruction and the only way to save the world is to establish positive relationships between man and nature, man and man, man and woman. Balance is the principle that guides these relationships. The industrial civilization has destroyed this principle by exercising the tyranny of mind over body. Consequently, man and woman become fragments and they desire to possess, even devour each other. That's the root of human being's tragedy. The only way out is to seek a kind of harmonious and balanced sexual love between man and woman in which body and mind are united so they will be no longer fragments. In this sexual love, man and woman have their freedom and independence while they are united. It's a relationship of both attraction and repulsion, like two stars in the sky. That's the star-equilibrium relationship in Lawrence's metaphysics.The Introduction in the thesis briefly introduces Lawrence's life and the background of the star-equilibrium theory and the literature review as wll. In Chapter one, the star-equilibrium theory is explained with its premise, definition and significance through evidence given by Freudian theory and Lawrence's own philosophical works. Lawrence holds that Freud's identification theory will not lead to the achievement of the star-equilibrium because it will annihilate the "sel" which is considered as the base of star-equilibrium by Lawrence. And then, the thesis especially discusses the definition and features of the integral self, which is the premise of the star-equilibrium, and ways to achieve it. In chapters two, three, and four, Lawrence's three major novels, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover are analyzed to show the process of his protagonists'struggle for the equilibrium relationship. In Sons and Lovers, both Paul's mother and his girlfriend want to possess Paul's mind, which certainly leads to an imbalanced relation. In Women in Love, Lawrence puts forward his star-equilibrium theory for the first time by Birkin's celebrated trope—the two lovers like two single equal stars balanced in conjunction. In this novel, the two lovers achieve the tentative love in star-equilibrium. In Lady Chatterley's Lover, Connie finds her rebirth in the Wragby wood, and her love for nature also prepares the way for the aesthetic perception of the human male, the son of nature, and then of sexual experience. Withdrawal to nature leads to their finding and fulfilling their own selves, and the two disciples of nature unite to breed a seed of happiness. At last, a conclusion is drawn that by presenting the star-equilibrium theory. Lawrence points out the way toward self-integrating and self-fulfillment for the modern people.